Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

There his most notable achievement was the management during
the next fifteen years of n arly $50 million of special funds given by
John D, Rockefeller, Sr., to zfd the development of medical education.
He w2s supported and guided throughout by the excellent advice and
statesmanship of his brothex and that other great pathologist, Dr.
Welch. Most of the funds went for rratched grents under contract with
medical sckools to capftalize the salaries of full-time clinicians &s
teachers, researchers and practitioners in charge of patients in the
schoolsm hospitals. The full-time program had been inftiated in the
Bopkins School in 1913 for the first time in America, thus completing
a sert made by Dr, Welch in 1907 and renewed in 1911 as between Dr.
Melch and Hr. Frederick Gates, philanthropic and business adviser to
Mr. Rockefeller, sr.18 The American Medical Association, which had
also fostered reforms in medical education, first approved irf it heart-
ily, but then, after hearing from the h- eonsituency, opposed it.
bitterly.
The General Education Board, in part yielding to these
pressures, m t e d widely through the press, and in part because the
RockefelLer foundations wished always to be above any hfnt of dicta-
tion in dispensing their patronage, modified same of those contracts
where the schookwished it do-, mvch against Flcmervs ThI.
was the first of several severe defeats suffered by the active and able
Secretary af the Board, But the nearly $50 million gllven by Rock-
feller, expmded as it was fn matched grants shrewdly administered
throughout the East, the South and the Mid-West , in such a way as to
stimulate similar improvements in areas not helped, resulted in a total